About the Book:
This volume marks the long-overdue return of a dark fiction series that debuted
in 1993. After a fourteen year hiatus, Thrillers is revived with a
star-studded second volume.

Within these pages, you'll find terror, suspense, and mystery that range from
quietly menacing to shockingly graphic, wildly fantastic to grimly realistic.
It's all here, with one universal ingredient: a well-told story.

The formula for the Thrillers series is deceptively simple: we invite four
of the genre's most popular authors to each contribute 20,000 words
of original, never-before-been-published fiction. We add insightful
Afterwords by each author, along with striking illustrations by a brilliant
artist. The end result is a wonderful showcase for the finest of today's short
fiction.

Table of Contents:
• Gemma Files
"Pen Umbra"
"Author's Notes"

• Tim Waggoner
"The Faces That We Meet"
"Long Way Home"
"Darker Than Winter"
"Author's Notes"

• Caitlín R. Kiernan
"The Daughter of the Four of Pentacles"
"Houses Under the Sea"
"Author's Notes"

About the Contributors:
Gemma Files is the IHG award-winning author of "The Emperor's Old Bones." Her
collections of short stories, Kissing Carrion and The Worm In Every
Heart, are both available from Prime Books. Five of her short stories were
adapted for TV by Showtime's anthology series The Hunger (1998-1999). Previously
a film critic, Files currently teaches at the Toronto Film School. Her second
book of poetry, Dust Radio, is being edited.

Tim Waggoner's novels include Pandora Drive, Like Death, A Nightmare on
Elm Street: Protégé, Necropolis, and the Harmony Society. He's
published close to eighty short stories, some of them collected in All Too
Surreal. His articles on writing have appeared in Writer's Digest,
Writers' Journal, and Ohio Writer.

R. Patrick Gates is the author of Fear, Grimm Memorials, Tunnelvision,
Jumpers, and The Prison. The second novel in the Grimm Memorials
series, Grimm Reapings--the continuation of the diabolical doings of
the witch, Eleanor Grimm, one of horror's most popular villains--was recently
published by Pinnacle.

Caitlín R. Kiernan is the author of seven novels, including the award-winning Silk and Threshold and the forthcoming Daughter Of Hounds.
Her short fiction has been collected in Tales Of Pain And Wonder, From Weird
And Distant Shores, and To Charles Fort, With Love, and has been
selected for The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, The Mammoth Book of Best
New Horror, and The Year's Best Science Fiction.

Robert Morrish is the editor of Cemetery Dance magazine and former
editor of The Scream Factory magazine. His fiction has appeared in
more than 20 anthologies, including Horrors!, The UFO Files, Subterranean
Gallery, Shivers, and Cold Flesh.

Published in two states:
• Limited
Edition of 750 signed copies ($40)
• Traycased
Lettered Edition of 26 signed and lettered copies bound in leather with a satin
ribbon page marker ($175)